Frost

Hello my dears!

Is it to late to say Happy New Year?!! Nonetheless, I wish you all a splendid year, full of fulfillment. I'm very happy I finally had the chance to photograph my manicure! Don't think I've gone "nude" in my blogging hiatus, I do my nails once a week or maybe twice but taking photos in good light is the tricky part. 

Sweet november

Hello ladies!

Today we say goodbye to November...this means that we're officially entering the holiday season...whoop whoop! I can't wait! I'm really in the mood to do some Christmasy nail art! Until then, let us focus on today's nails.

Metal lollipops

Hello, my dear readers!

First of all, thank you for being here. It gives me such pleasure to see that there are readers even though it's been so long since I last posted. Work/ school/ life keeps me busy and I know there are some of you that do the same and still have time to squeeze in some posts, but not me, the master of procrastination. So cheers to all the ladies out there that have a busy schedule and still have time to blog ^^

Mint dream

Hello dears!

I'm back! I bet you didn't even missed me, that's how short my "blog vacation" was. Anyhow, I'm excited to present you today another subtle but dreamy nail art, oh so perfect for our beloved summer days. For today's nail art I used a Born Pretty Store stamping plate that I won at a giveaway. It has gorgeous designs on it! I can't wait to try them all!

Stamping fail

Hello ladies!

Weeeell...it was bound to happen! Although I don't like to post manicures that I'm not fully satisfied with, today I made an exception. Having to study for exams, my time is "precious". And eh... I didn't get the chance to re-do the whole manicure. So here it is...my not so perfect nails :)

Perfect summer nails

Hello!

[EN] - I don't know about you, but I'm loving these summer days! I don't mind the heat, I love it! I wish I could live in a never-ending summer ♥. Okay, enough of that...lets talk naaails! I seriously can't get enough of this color/nail polish. You can see it in Summer blues and reviewed in Negative space trend (fun fact: the last time I wore this nail polish was during my exams session, just like now). Anyways, I say it's a must have for this summer.

[Ro] - Salutare fete dragi! Nu ştiu voi, dar eu iubesc zilele de vară! Nu mă deranjează căldura deloc, aş trăi într-un loc unde e vară mereu. Eh... să revenim la oile noastre şi să vorbim despre unghii! Trebuie să recunosc, nu mă pot sătura de această ojă/culoare. O puteţi vedea în Summer blues şi în Negative space trend unde i-am făcut şi o recenzie. Tocmai mi-am dat seama că ultima dată cȃnd am purtat această ojă, eram tot în sesiune ca şi acum :)) se vede la ce îmi stă mie capul. Vă recomand o asemenea ojă în colecţie, nu veţi regreta.

Born Pretty Store Review - Delicate pearls

Hello my dears!

[EN] - I hope you're well and happy! I'm not so much, there are a few exams coming my way so this month will be intense for me. But rest assured, I've got the blog covered with manicures prepared in advance :) Today, let's discuss about nail art accessories, 3D in particular. What are your thoughts about them?

[Ro] - Buna fete dragi! Sper ca sunteti bine si fericite! Eu trebuie sa recunosc, fericita nu prea sunt. Urmeaza o perioada grea, plina de examene, dar fiti linistite, nu voi lipsi de pe blog deoarece am manichiuri pregatite in avans :) Asadar, sa vorbim azi despre accesorii pentru unghii, cele 3D mai exact. Ce parere aveti despre ele?

Born Pretty Store Review - Double stamping (First attempt)

Hello ladies!

[EN] - Today is a glorious day! It's the day I failed at the double stamping technique! :)) I've seen it going around in the nail art world for a while now, so I thought it was about time to give it a try. Aparently, it's not that big of a deal, you stamp once, then you do it again. You can use the same design or a different one. If you're doing the same design but with different colors the trick is to stamp the colors very closely together to get the "idea" of shading, but as you can see I didn't succeed at that.

[Ro] - Salutare fete dragi! Azi e o zi glorioasa! E ziua in care am incercat tehnica stampilarii duble. Se poate stampila acelasi model dar folosind nuante diferite sau modele diferite si nuante diferite, posibilitatile sunt infinite! Daca folositi acelasi model, secretul este sa stampilati modelele aproape unul peste celalalt pentru a da impreisa de umbre, dar dupa cum se vede nu mi-a iesit prea bine.

Born Pretty Store Review - Color blocking stamping

Hello ladies!

[EN] - As promised in my previous post (Alaska), today I'm going to show you something "warmer". I was going to say color blocking but I don't think it fits that category. With that in mind can anyone tell me what this trend really is? I think my magenta should have been stronger for this to be called color blocking, right?

[Ro] - Fetelor, m-am hotarat sa scriu din nou si in romana. Dar ca sa nu ma simt ca si un robotel care traduce mot-a-mot o sa scriu asa cum imi vine. Sa trecem la treaba, va spuneam in postarea anterioara ca azi o sa va arat ceva mai "calduros". Voiam sa spun color blocking dar nu cred ca se incadreaza in trend. De fapt, ati putea sa-mi spuneti ce inseamna mai exact color blocking? Cred ca ticlamul meu trebuia sa fie mai puternic si sa acopere mai mult spatiu ca sa intre in categorie, nu?

Born Pretty Store Review - Purple water decals

Hello ladies!

You know that feeling when you have a ton of stuff to do but you want to do something else entirely (like nail art)? Yeah the all mighty, mind blowing procrastionatioooon! Ugh... Even though there are some tricks as to how to avoid it...it's such a guilty pleasure. And It's quite sad how your own brain is sabotaging you :)) To all of you out there fighting this...hang in there and just get sh*t done. It will get easier once you get started, that fear and panic you feel will go away once you are actually doing something. The trick is to start!

Born Pretty Review ~ Flowers' day

Hello ladies!

Hello April! Hope you'll be great! As for temperatures, I hope it'll get better! We've had such a moody weather here, in Cluj lately...it snowed then it was sunny then it snowed again and so on and all in a matter of hours. I'm confused, where is spring? :)) Nonetheless, I'm determined to do "springish" manicures from now on, maybe just maybe the warm sunny days will be here sooner, rather than later.

Born Pretty Store Review: A hot accent on a cold mani

Hei girls!

After whining a lot about this crappy weather and longing for hot summer days spent on a beach with an icy drink in our hand, I decided it was about time to embrace autumn with its ups and downs, surely I don't need to mention the "downs" we pretty much know the moody rains and sunless days. As in concern to the "ups", autumn always reminds me of my childhood, when I would gather bouqets of leaves to take them to my mom or collect chestnuts for no reason. Fall has its charm, it's the season of juicy apples and grapes, of hot chocolate and cozy sweaters, so yeah, I'm planning to enjoy all that and forget about the nasty weather. How about you?

The theme of the Mish Mash Challenge - cold - goes perfectly with this time of year, but I didn't get ahead of myself as I wanted to do a review of some studs that I received from Born Pretty Store.

Born Pretty Store Review: Taping+studs+glitter equals pretty

Hello ladies!

When I first started this blog the main thought was to have fun so when I began to feel a slight pressure because of the challenges I decided to take it slow and do only the themes that appeal to me. That beeing said I've missed  Monday's TTC theme - sugar spun because I did one recently (you can see it here Sugar spun topping ~ first attempt) and I'm skipping today's Mish Mash Challenge theme - least expensive because I have no idea what I could've done with my cheapest nail polish.

Când am început blogul, ideea principală era să fie distractiv, apoi când a apărut puțină presiune din cauza provocărilor, m-am decis să o iau mai ușor și să particip doar la temele care-mi plac.

Born Pretty Store Review: My first stamping experience ♥

Hello again!

Because it has a double purpose this post took longer than I expected. If you are wondering about the purposes, well yesterday we ended the 31 Weeks Collaboration, it was my first challenge this big and I enjoyed it, even though I didn't have the chance to participate at all the themes. Nevertheless you can check out all my entries for this challenge here. In this last theme I've choosed to recreate Madalina's design, although her version is better ^^

Deoarece are un dublu scop, această postare mi-a luat mai mult timp decât mă așteptam. Dacă vă întrebați care sunt acelea, ei bine ieri s-a terminat Colaborarea de 31 de Săptămâni; a fost prima mea provocare de-o asemenea anvergură și pot spune că mi-a plăcut, chiar dacă nu am avut ocazia să particip la toate temele. Cu toate acestea puteți să-mi vedeți toate modelele pentru această provocare aici. Pentru ultima temă am ales să recreez modelul Mădălinei, deși varianta ei rămâne mai bună ^^

Born Pretty Store Review: Flowers with acrylic paints

Hei girls!

If you're  here and you are reading this you must be a nail art lover/adicted and you definetly want pretty nails or something that will stand out anyway. Well let me tell you the must have thing-y for this: the acrylic colors. 

As most of you probably know you can't really do nail art with regular nail polish - it's to thick or hard to use in tiny details. So when I was contacted by Born Pretty Store to do a review of a product I knew right away what to choose.